Around 230,000 retirees in Switzerland do not receive supplementary state benefits to guarantee a minimum standard of living, although they are legally entitled to, an elderly rights group has said.
Around 230,000 retirees in Switzerland do not receive supplementary state benefits to guarantee a minimum standard of living, although they are legally entitled to, an elderly rights group has said.
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>The main factor behind the reluctance of many to request the benefits is a lack of awareness of their existence, Pro Senectute says.
That’s a really good point re pensioners. Most older people don’t know how to find valid information online because they are overwhelmed with the information flood online.
Stupid question: if they know there are 230k ppl with rights to benefits, why not just give them those benefits directly?
Switzerland going out of their way to make access of information not easy for its most vulnerable demographics? Why I never!
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#IMPORTANT NOTE
since the last update to these benefits (2020 or 2021), **your children** inherit the last 10 years of benefits that exceeds 40k. Your children can’t refuse the debt and 10 years of benefits can easily be 200k-300k.
These benefits are also available for those with disability benefits. And since the last update, they decided to give 500-800 CHF a month more for rent **BUT** 600-1500 CHF less for those with kids (the amount depends on the amount of kids, the more kids the less you receive compared to previous design).
The fact we don’t hear about this stuff is because it affects a small portion of the population and those more fragile and less able to make their voice heard.
This is also true for a lot of people who would be eligible for Social Services. We only hear about “welfare queens” and people defrauding Social Services, but those are such a small part of the people actually receiving aid. So we clamp down on everything and make accessing those support institutions harder.
Switzerland spent 3 million on surveilling dependents of Social Services and they barely made back the 3 million.
Of 209billion support (incl. AHV, IV, ALV and support for healthcare premiums), 15billion are for Social Services pertaining to living, social exclusion, family – what we generally categorise as Soziale Dienste.
That’s a fraud rate of 0.02%.
To put this into perspective:
17billion COVID emergency credits lead to 307 million that were fraudulently received. That’s a fraud rate of 1.81%, a hundred times higher.